{"id":1230832,"date":"2026-02-25T15:48:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T15:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/?p=607977"},"modified":"2026-02-25T15:48:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T15:48:03","slug":"28-years-later-needed-to-be-a-stark-reminder-that-the-infected-arent-zombies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/28-years-later-needed-to-be-a-stark-reminder-that-the-infected-arent-zombies\/","title":{"rendered":"28 Years Later needed to be a stark reminder that the infected aren\u2019t zombies"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An infected walks through a field of flowers\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Sony Pictures\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/28-years-later-needed-to-be-a-stark-reminder-that-the-infected-arent-zombies.jpg\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-text-align-none\"><em>28 Days Later<\/em> offered a singular twist on a horror trope: Instead of the dead rising up from the graves, the \u201czombies\u201d of Danny Boyle\u2019s zombie movie would be normal humans transformed by the man-made \u201cRage Virus.\u201d And they could <em>run<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">So, after years and years of Boyle and writer Alex Garland debating whether to follow the maligned <em>28 Weeks Later<\/em> with a proper sequel from the original team \u2014 and sorting out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/paultassi\/2024\/12\/11\/after-28-years-later-trailer-28-days-later-will-finally-return-to-streaming\/\">complicated rights issues<\/a> to do so \u2014\u00a0Boyle tells Polygon that there was really one goal for what to do next.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">\u201cThe idea of the film in many ways was to be as original as possible,\u201d he says of this week\u2019s 28 Years Later. \u201cIts structure is very unusual. Its progression is even more unusual, and it&#8217;s quite startling even at script stage to realize that the last third of the film is going to be this moving examination of mortality in different ways \u2014 and commemorate and celebrate that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/28-years-later-needed-to-be-a-stark-reminder-that-the-infected-arent-zombies-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"Danny Boyle, Alfie Williams, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson on the forest set of 28 Years Later | Photo: Sony Pictures\" data-portal-copyright=\"Photo: Sony Pictures\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><em>28 Years Later<\/em> tells the story of a 12-year-old boy, Spike (Alfie Williams), who has grown up in a walled-off island town off the shore of the quarantine zone. He has never seen the outside world; no one in the UK was permitted to leave after the Rage Virus decimated the population, and neighboring countries continue to patrol the perimeter to ensure normalcy for the outside world. Spike\u2019s father, Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), believes it\u2019s essential for his son to grow into the toughest version of himself, a protector. Early on, they venture off into the wilderness to hunt, while Spike\u2019s mother, Isla (Jodie Comer,) suffers from a mysterious illness no one in their microcosm is equipped to treat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">There\u2019s a strong human element to <em>28 Years Later<\/em> \u2014 Boyle and Garland have said Ken Loach\u2019s 1969 coming-of-age drama <em>Kes<\/em> was a major inspiration, and the connection is deeply felt \u2014 but it manifests in more than just the survivors. Twenty-eight years after the first exposure to Rage, the infected have persisted, transformed, and inched closer to becoming their own, separate species.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">\u201cOne of the things we&#8217;re doing in this is shortening the distance between the humans and the infected,\u201d Garland says. \u201cWe&#8217;re acknowledging that they&#8217;re not different from us. They have an illness which a doctor would look at in a different way to the way we would instinctively react to it. So it&#8217;s as much to do with things that appear to be very different but have more in common and can be addressed or observed in different ways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/28-years-later-needed-to-be-a-stark-reminder-that-the-infected-arent-zombies-2.jpg\" alt=\"Jamie and Spike examine a dead body that has just turned infected in 28 Years Later\" title=\"Jamie and Spike examine a dead body that has just turned infected in 28 Years Later\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Photo: Sony Pictures\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">From the beginning of development, Garland knew he wanted to take advantage of the large passage of time between the first film and the new sequel \u2014 28 years is a long, long time for a crumbling society. And in extrapolating the direction the world might go, he landed on two possibilities that ultimately informed how the infected we see in <em>28 Years Later<\/em> have evolved. \u201cOne is: there aren&#8217;t any infected left and life has gone back to normal. So that would be one sort of film you could do, sort of post-COVID film as it were. And the other is: no, the infection is still alive. <em>Well, how could it still be<\/em> alive? These are not reanimated dead people via some sort of supernatural means. They&#8217;re people who have an illness or a condition or a virus, in this case. And so, how are they still alive? They need to consume energy, they need to drink.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">The survival instincts \u2014 and even the rage that fuels the infected\u2019s never-ending hunt \u2014 exist in every character in <em>28 Years Later<\/em>, zombie-esque or not. \u201cIf you look at the films in detail, it is something that&#8217;s within us all,\u201d Boyle says. \u201cThere isn&#8217;t the sense that it&#8217;s an outsider&#8217;s disease or something, that there&#8217;s some sickness that they just have and we don&#8217;t. Every character gets to exhibit part of it, the potential for it within ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Boyle and Garland aren\u2019t the types to put a fine point on the themes of their own films, but the writer admits that there is a certain amount of frustration bubbling under the surface of <em>28 Years Later<\/em>, and the greater idea that all of this horror is happening to real people on both sides of the line.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/28-years-later-needed-to-be-a-stark-reminder-that-the-infected-arent-zombies-3.jpg\" alt=\"A multi-camera rig capturing an infected for a bullet-time like sequence in 28 Years Later\" title=\"A multi-camera rig capturing an infected for a bullet-time like sequence in 28 Years Later\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"A multi-camera rig capturing an infected for a bullet-time like sequence in 28 Years Later | Photo: Sony Pictures\" data-portal-copyright=\"Photo: Sony Pictures\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">\u201cI think these things are interpretive, but for me it would be about the way in which over the last 10 to 15 years, we&#8217;ve become increasingly preoccupied by looking back rather than looking forward, back to the way things used to be. But then examining that more, how much of that is about selective amnesia, things that are just ignored about the way things used to be, or misremembered about the way things used to be, or just selectively remembered? Cherrypicked? And so it&#8217;s a film about an aggressive state rather than a progressive state, at least in part.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Out of the development hell that plagued a proposed <em>28 Months Later<\/em> came not just <em>28 Years Later<\/em>, but a full-blown trilogy of films. The story feels complete with the credits roll on <em>28 Years<\/em>, by design, but in that exploration of world-building and commentary, Boyle and Garland clearly found more to say \u2014 and it\u2019ll find its way back to that original movie eventually.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">\u201cYou have to acknowledge the first film, but to a minimal degree, but we tried to make a standalone film in its own right,\u201d Boyle says. \u201cBut <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/movies\/493438\/the-28-years-later-trailer-has-way-more-teletubbies-and-creepy-poetry-than-i-was-expecting\">Cillian [Murphy<\/a>, star of <em>28 Days Later<\/em>], for instance, who&#8217;d be the most obvious way to make the thing feel continuous with the first film, is a very important feature of the trilogy \u2014 but not just yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><em>28 Years Later<\/em> opens in theaters on June 20.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/607977\/28-years-later-danny-boyle-alex-garland-explain-meaning\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>28 Days Later offered a singular twist on a horror trope: Instead of the dead rising up from the graves, the \u201czombies\u201d of Danny Boyle\u2019s zombie movie would be normal humans transformed by the man-made \u201cRage Virus.\u201d And they could run.&nbsp; So, after years and years of Boyle and writer Alex Garland debating whether to follow the maligned 28 Weeks Later with a proper sequel from the original team \u2014 and sorting out the complicated rights issues to do so \u2014\u00a0Boyle tells Polygon that there was really one goal for what to do next. \u201cThe idea of the film in many ways was to be as original as possible,\u201d he says of this week\u2019s 28 Years Later. \u201cIts structure is very unusual. 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